The Scottish Government, and the whole of the Parliament, has an appallingly poor track record when it comes to Council Tax reform
If the Scottish Government is seeking consensus for reform then it must promise now, ahead of time, that they pledge to be led by that consensus wherever it leads to. If the engagement presents a clear and obvious solution – we believe that the only one is our Property Tax – then it must be implemented at speed and without complaint even if it’s not the SNP’s preferred solution. Frankly, the Parliament as a whole abdicated its right to complaint on this one. For several decades, the party political system has blamed everyone in the room for the failure to reform Council Tax while denying that they were also standing in that room themselves. If party politics can’t provide that consensus solution they say they need, then it’s time for party politics to step out of the way and let the people deliver the democratic solution that the parties have been holding us back from.